After being rested for the West Indies tour, the right-handed opener has shown a rich vein of form with the bat slamming three hundreds and three fifties for the Indian team.
Pandya was promoted at No 4 on Shastri's insistence in the third ODI against Australia in Indore, where he scored 78 in a winning cause.
The skipper also praised the pace bowling duo of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah for their outstanding performances in the series against Australia.
With the emphatic series win, India also avenged the 1-4 series defeat the last time the two teams played in Australia.
India beat Australia by 7 wickets in the fifth and final ODI in Nagpur to regain the world no. 1 spot in the latest ICC ODI rankings.
Opener Rohit Sharma slams his 14th ODI hundred to help India thump Australia by 7 wickets in the fifth and final match at Nagpur. Hosts clinch 5-match series 4-1.
It is a home game for the Nagpur-born player and he would be hope to get a game despite leaking 71 runs in 10 overs in his first game of the series in Bengaluru.
Bairstow, who also got a ton in the first match, hit 17 boundaries in his 114-ball innings. Bairstow's innings was the highest ODI score by an England batsman against West Indies.
Mohammed will come in for Jason Holder, who returned home to Barbados to attend the funeral of his uncle, Derrick Garrett, a local sports administrator.
India lost the fourth ODI against Australia by 21 runs, their first defeat after nine consecutive wins in the 50-over format.
Australia post a mammoth total 334/5, their first 300 score in the series, including a 14th ODI century by opener David Warner.
Australia have snapped India's 9-match ODI winning streak as they beat hosts by 21 runs in the fourth ODI at M. Chinnaswamy, Bengaluru.
The T20i matches will all be double-headers as they will also feature the Proteas in T20 International matches against the India women's team.
With the fate of the five-match series already decided, the hosts will look to continue their dominant run against the world champions in the fourth ODI at Bengaluru on Thursday.
The young leg-spinner has got the prized scalp of Maxwell in all three ODIs, with the batsmen being stumped in back-to-back games of the ongoing five-match series.
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Moeen Ali and Jos Buttler launched a stunning counter-attack. The duo added an unbeaten 77 runs in just 48 balls that took England just past the DLS score.
The Australia vice-captain stressed on the fact that the visitors have found it difficult to cope up with the conditions in India this time around.
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